Quotes about success and achievement

I have selected out various themes of quotations to make them a little easier to browse, all these quotes are about 'Success and achievement'.

Even if you're on the right track you'll get run over if you just sit there. (Will Rogers)
Ships are safe within the harbor, but is that what ships are for? (Unknown)
It's not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it's because we do not dare that they are difficult. (Seneca)
Learn to expect, not to doubt. In so doing, you bring everything into the realm of possibility. (Dr. Norman Vincent Peale)
The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself. (Tom Peters)
If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances. (Julia Sore)
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all. (Norman Vincent Peale)
It's always too soon to quit. (Norman Vincent Peale)
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. (Richard Bach)
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it. (Unknown)
Whatever you do will seem insignificant, but it is very important to do It. (Mahatma Gandhi)
Get the last word - apologize. (Unknown)
The difference between the successful person and the unsuccessful person is the unsuccessful person stops short of his goals; the successful person surpasses his goals. (Joseph P. Martino) [(1937~) American Poet, Author]
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen. (Peter Marshall)
Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out. (Michael Burke)
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. (Herm Albright)
The darkest hour has only sixty minutes. (Morris Mandel)
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it. (Napoleon Hill)
When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't. (Thomas Edison)
We avoid the things that we're afraid of because we think there will be dire consequences if we confront them. But the truly dire consequences in our lives come from avoiding things that we need to learn about or discover. (Shakti Gawain) [The Path of Transformation]
A miracle can not prove what is impossible - it is useful only to confirm what is possible. (Unknown)
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right. (Henry Ford)
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes... but that would be a mistake. (Unknown)
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. (Chinese Proverb)
Don't look back - your'e not goin that way. (Unknown)
It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. (E. E. Cummings)
The height of your accomplishments is determined by the depth of your convictions. (William F. Scolavino)
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. (Lao Tzu) [philosopher]
The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions. (William F. Scolavino)
Don't count the days. Make the days count. (Mohammad Ali) [boxer]
Never underestimate that power that is, and has always been within you. (Unknown)
The key to motivation is motive. It's the why. It's the deeper yes! burning inside that makes it easier to say no to the less important. (Stephen R. Covey)
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. (Dutch Proverb)
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. (Eric Hoffer)
When enthusiasm is inspired by reason; controlled by caution; sound in theory; practical in application; reflects confidence; spreads good cheer; raises morale; inspires associates; arouses loyalty, and laughs at adversity; it is beyond price. (Coleman Cox)
There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience. (Archibald McLeish)
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a small step. (Chinese Proverb)
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals. (Jim Rohn)
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. (T. S. Eliot)
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else get your way. (Unknown)
Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come. (Og Mandino)
Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose to be grateful for the abundance that's present - love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure - the wasteland of lack falls away and we experience heaven on Earth. (Sarah Ban Breathnach)
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it! (Alan Saporta)
The steeper the mountain, the harder then climb. The better the view at the finishing line. (Unknown)
Don't be so humble; you're not that great. (Golda Meir) [to a visiting diplomat ]
You can learn more from your competitors than your friends, they will be among the very first to expose all your flaws and shortcomings. (Joseph P. Martino) [(1937~) American Poet, Author]
When we feel stuck, going nowhere - even starting to slip backward - we may actually be backing up to get a running start. (Dan Millman)
When you follow your bliss doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else. (Joseph Campbell)
The space for what you want is already filled with what you settle for instead. (Stephen C. Paul)
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him. (Sidney Greenberg)
Whether you be man or woman, you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. (James Lane Allen)
In a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks. (Warren Buffett)
If you don't have the time to do something right, when are you going to find the time to fix it? (Stephen King)
You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself. (H. Norman Schwarzkopf)
The high price of success is bought, paid and purchased with blood, sweat and tears. (Joseph P. Martino) [(1937~) American Poet, Author]
Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else. (Nathaniel Branden)
You don't get in life what you want. You get what you are. (Les Brown)
The only way to find the limits of the possible is by going beyond them to the impossible. (Unknown)
More people are imprisoned by the self-imposed limitations of their mind, than by the limitations of any prison cell. (Joseph P. Martino) [(1937~) American Poet, Author]
That which does not kill you makes you stronger. (Neitzsche)
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. (Abraham Lincoln)
Integrity is the essence of everything successful. (R. Buckminster Fuller)
The patient person accepts a certain amount of failure knowing that it is as important a thread in the fabric of life as is success. Great individuals make great successes out of failure. (Denis Waitley)
Success is the ability to close the door on your past, regardless of your failures, and move forward. In other words, if you're not on the way, you're in the way, so it's best that you get out of the way. (Bill White)
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road. (Dag Hammarskjold)
Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe. (Robert Service)
If you're going through hell, keep going. (Winston Churchill) [former prime minister]
Better to be disliked than pitied. (Abba Eban)
If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at all! (Michelangelo)
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life. (Abraham H. Maslow)
Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted. (Unknown)
If successful people have one common trait, it's an utter lack of cynicism. The world owes them nothing. They go out and find what they need without asking for permission; they're driven, talented, and work through negatives by focusing on the positives. (Mike Zimmerman)
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. (Milton Berle)
We all get report cards in many different ways, but the real excitement of what you're doing is in the doing of it. It's not what you're gonna get in the end - it's not the final curtain - it's really in the doing it, and loving what you're doing. (Ralph Lauren)
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. (Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. (Unknown)
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. Come to the edge. We can't. We will fall! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew. (Guillaume Apollinaire)
If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you. (Unknown)
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. (Dale Carnegie)
Winners are losers who got up and gave it one more try. (Dennis DeYoung)
Prepare today for the wants of tomorrow. (Aesop) [The Ant and the Grasshopper - Aesop's Fables]
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. (Tony Robbins)
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. (Clare Boothe Luce)
Nothing is more endangered in the modern world than the powerful combination of hard work toward meaningful goals joined with an exuberant embrace of the present moment. (Tom Morris)
Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into. (Wayne Dyer)
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. (Chinese Proverb)
Always be nice to people on the way up; because you'll meet the same people on the way down. (Wilsom Mizner)
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties. (Aesop) [The Fox and the Goat - Aesop's Fables]
Being defeated is often only a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. (Marilyn vos Savan)
Courage is being scared to death--and saddling up anyway. (John Wayne)
When the bull's-eye becomes as big in your mind as an elephant, you are sure to hit it. (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first. (Unknown)
I'm going to stop procrastinating ... once I get around to it. (Unknown)
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become. (Jim Rohn)
Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator. (Robert Orben)
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. (William Saroyan)
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. (Anatole France)
If you think education is expensive - try ignorance. (Derek Bok)
If you don't take charge of shaping your own destiny, others will apply their agenda to you. (Eric Allenbaugh)
Commitment doesn't guarantee success, but lack of commitment guarantees you'll fall far short of your potential. (Denis Waitley)
Why Do We Procrastinate? P - postponing life R - resisting change O - overly cautious C - contemplating course of action R - reasoning and justifying A - afraid of success S - summoning up some courage T - trouble moving forward I - inability to see the outcome N - not able to trust in your abilities to make decisions A - attempting to control the situation T - time to reflect on your motives E - erodes progress (S. Richardson)
A peacock who rests on its feathers is just another turkey. (Dolly Parton)
Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back. (Babe Ruth)
One who says it can't be done should not interrupt the person doing it. (Chinese proverb )
If you really want to do something, you'll find a way; if you don't, you'll find an excuse. (Unknown)
There is no such thing as can't; only varying degrees of don't want to. (Tony Donohue)
Don't 'take care', take a risk! (Denis Waitley)
Do not do tomorrow what you can do today. (Unknown)
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually fear you will make one. (Elbert Hubbard)
The harder you fall, the higher you bounce. (Unknown)
Honesty is the best policy. (Aesop) [The Horse and the Groom - Aesop's Fables]
Winners are the people who when the odds are stacked against them, and those around them have fallen, will have the courage to look within themselves and make the unbelieveable believeable, and the impossible possible. (Unknown)
Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends. (Brian Tracy)
I am not bound to win, I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have. (Abraham Lincoln)
The power of the word is real whether or not you are conscious of it. Your own words are the bricks and mortar of the dreams you want to realize. Behind every word flows energy. (Sonia Choquette)
Necessity knows no law. (Aesop) [The Birdcatcher, the Partridge, and the Cock - Aes]
If you keep doing what you've always done - you'll keep getting what you've always gotten. (Kenneth Blanchard)
The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going. (David Starr Jordan)
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you are right (Henry Ford)
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, they make them. (George Bernard Shaw)
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees the goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly - that is didication. (Cecil B. DeMille)
The majority of people meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail. (Napoleon Hill)
Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find. (Robert Flaherty)
If you get too far ahead of the army, your soldiers may mistake you for the enemy. (Unknown)
A year from now you will wish you had started today. (Karen Lamb)
If you want to achieve widespread impact and lasting value, be bold. (Howard Schultz)
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong. (Unknown)
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. (Thomas Henry Huxley)
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. (Benjamin E. Mayes)
The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. (Michelangelo Buonarroti)
Great thoughts come from the heart. (Lue di Claiers)
What you sometimes think of as failure is often success in disguise. (Joseph P. Martino) [(1937~) American Poet, Author]
The struggle you are in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Don't give up. (Unknown)
Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful. (William A. Ward)
Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level. (Max L. Forman)
Never test the depth of the water with both feet. (Unknown)
Many people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could. (Unknown)
One never stands taller or more firmly grounded than when they stand on their principles. (Joseph P. Martino) [(1937~) American Poet, Author]
Best corporate IT quote ever: I don't think iPhone brings anything new to the table. It has a great user experience, but that's all. (Manjit Singh)
No argument will give courage to the coward. (Aesop) [The Fawn and His Mother - Aesop's Fables]
Discover the difference between doing and being and become. (Unknown)
If you believe you're not good enough yet, then work hard to get there. Don't give up. (Gonzo Arzuaga)
Good things come to those who wait, but for some poor sods it comes too late. (Unknown)
Necessity is the mother of invention. (Aesop) [Aesop's Fables]
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. (Beverly Sills)
Courage is the mastery of fear, not the absence of fear. (Mark Twain)
Do not undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. (Unknown)
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement. (Donald A. Laird)
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it. (Jonathan Winters)
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on. (Unknown)
As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, THINK BIG. (Donald Trump)
Don't attempt to attain success at any and all costs, the price may prove to high. (Joseph P. Martino) [(1937~) American Poet, Author]
I couldn't wait for success... so I went ahead without it. (Unknown)
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. (Arthur Ashe)
The high price of success is bought,paid and purchased with blood,sweat and tears. (Joseph P. Martino) [(1937~) American Poet, Author]
Do what you have always done and you'll get what you have always got. (Sue Knight)
Destiny is as destiny does. If you believe you have no control, then you have no control. (Wess Roberts)
Everything that happens to us is a reflection of who we are. (Deepak Chopra)
Most look up and admire the stars. A champion climbs a mountain and grabs one. (Unknown)
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. (Mahatma Gandhi)
If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe. (Woody Allen)
You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want. (Zig Ziglar)
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something I can do. (Edward Everett Hale)
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. (Josh Billings)
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. (Chinese Proverb)
Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure. (Jack Lemmon)
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying. (Michael Jordan)
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. (Abraham H. Maslow)
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. (Oscar Wilde)
Many people like to think that they'll find balance AFTER they find success. But in reality, achieving balance IS success. (Brian Koslow)
Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about. (Unknown)
Set excellent performance as your standard and strive to achieve it each day. (Brian Tracy)
Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know and you'll see the way to fly. (Unknown)
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. An optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. (Winston Churchill) [former prime minister]
Create a set of great personal values and surround yourself with the right people that can form your support system. Have an optimistic spirit and develop a strong purpose that you completely believe in and everything you can imagine is possible, for you. (Andrew Horton)
You would be surprised how luck, success and opportunity are never very far "behind" for the individuals who position themselves far "ahead" of the pack. (Joseph P. Martino) [(1937~) American Poet, Author]
No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. (Charles Kendall Adams)
Too many people over value what they are not and undervalue what they are. (Unknown)
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. (Nicholas Murray Butler)
Trials, temptations, disappointments - all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibre of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. (James Buckham)
Everything works out in the end. If it hasn't worked out, it's not the end. (Unknown)
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. (Johann von Goethe)
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. (Robert Louis Stevenson) [novelist]
If the shoe fits, you're not allowing for growth. (Robert N. Coons)
We learn to fly not by becoming fearless, but by the daily practice of courage. (Sam Keen)
Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude. (Colin L. Powell)
Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak. Sometimes it means you are strong enough to let go. (Unknown)
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway. (Harper Lee)
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece. (John Ruskin)
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. (Sally Berger)
Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger. (Lou Holtz)
Learn from the past. Live in the present. Prepare for the future. (Joseph P. Martino) [(1937~) American Poet, Author]
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. (John Wooden)
The price of greatness is responsibility (Winston Churchill) [former Priminister]
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve! (Andrew Carnegie)
We forge the chains we wear in life. (Charles Dickens)
A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence. (Jim Watkins)
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move. (Benjamin Franklin)
Look before you leap. (Aesop) [The Fox and the Goat - Aesop's Fables]
You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. (A.A. Milne)
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. (Napoleon Hill)
If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito. (Betty Reese)
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. (Thomas Jefferson)
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. (Maureen Dowd)
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. (Theodore Roosevelt)
All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. (William F. Halsey)
Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway, we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. (Earl Nightingale)
Every day begins with new possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace. (Ronald Reagan)
Always aim for achievement, and forget about success. (Helen Hayes)
I gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which I must stop and look fear in the face...I say to myself, I've lived through this and can take the next thing that comes along. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
Don't settle for less than is possible. (Tom Peters )
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. (Lee Holtz)
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Slow and steady wins the race. (Aesop) [The Tortoise and the Hare - Aesop's Fables]
Men and women with sight see things as they are. Men and women with insight, see things as they could be. (Joseph P. Martino) [(1937~) American Poet, Author]
Destiny is not a matter of chance it is a matter of choice. (William Jennings Bryan) [politician]
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing. (Theodore Roosevelt)
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. (Dale Carnegie)
We can not take credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts. (Unknown)
The question is not what you look at, but what you see. (Henry David Thoreau)
Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable are the kind who do nothing. (William Feather)
Believe and act as if it was impossible to fail. (Charles Kettering)
Failure is a stepping-stone to greatness. (Oprah Winfrey)
Every exit is an entry somewhere else. (Tom Stoppard)
All I would tell people is to hold onto what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find it on your own terms. (Harrison Ford)
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. (Unknown)
Be ready when opportunity comes.... Luck is when preparation and opportunity meet. (Roy D. Chapin Jr.)
Always be a first-rate version of yourself instead of a second-rate version of someone else. (Judy Garland)
I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely. (Arthur Conan Doyle)
You cannot discover oceans unless you have the courage to leave the shore. (Andre Gide)
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. (Ghandhi)
Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use. (Wendell Johnson)
Dynamic choices made in the physical, the daring to follow the path set by the heart, are the only prerequisites to ultimate success. (Mentor, Agartha)
Persistence. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan, 'Press on,' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. (Calvin Coolidge)
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you. (Tony Dorsett)
Never mistake activity for achievement. (John Wooden)
Change your thoughts and you can change your world. (Norman Vincent Peale)
The only stupid question is the one that goes unasked. (Unknown)
You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. (Unknown)
Never take down a fence until you know why it was put up. (Unknown)
You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way. (Abba Eban)
When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it (Dalai Lama)
Things that are impossible just take longer. (Ian Hickson)
Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed. (Walter Russell)
There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts. (Richard Bach)
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. (Winston Churchill)
Success lies not in achieving what you aim at but in aiming at what you ought to achieve. (Unknown)
There are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened. (John Richardson)
Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't. (Richard Bach)
No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things. (Channing Pollock)
Let us rise up and be thankful, for Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. (Cicero)
The mighty oak was once a little nut that held its ground. (Unknown)
Focus on the solution, not the problem. (Walter Anderson)
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs - even though checkered by failure - than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. (Theodore Roosevelt)
You can tell that you're doing the right thing if it feels effortless. (Unknown)
There is more to success than reaching goals. Even a vast fortune can leave you feeling alone, unfulfilled and spiritually poor. Success must also include a joyful appreciation of living an authentic joy that pulls us toward the next episode of our life's purpose. (Steve Brunkhorst)
The only way past fear is to go through it. (Unknown)
The successful person goes the extra mile; the failure never reaches the half-way point. (Joseph P. Martino) [(1937~) American Poet, Author]
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. (Abraham H. Maslow)
We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service. (Earl Nightingale)
Your mind can only hold one thought at a time make it a positive and constructive one. (Unknown)
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success. (Henry David Thoreau)
A NO uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a YES merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble. (Mahatma Gandhi)
Shoot for the moon; even if you miss you'll land among the stars. (Les Brown)
When you cannot make up your mind between two evenly balanced courses of action, choose the bolder. (William Joseph Slim)
Fall seven times get up eight. (Unknown)
Try and fail, but don't fail to try. (Stephen Kraggwa)
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. (Winston Churchill) [former Priminister]
Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault. (Dr. David M. Burns)
Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it. (Hank Aaron)
Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice. (John McCain)
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Behind every successful man is his woman. Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman. (Unknown)
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. (Seneca)
Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish. (Jean De La Fontaine)
All new beginnings require that you unlock a new door. (Rabbi Nachman)
One can never consent to creep, when one feels an impulse to soar (Helen Keller)
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. (F. P. Jones)
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in determination. (Tommy Lasorda)
Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. (William C. Durant)
Don't complain about the bottom rungs of the ladder; they helped to get you higher. (Unknown)
Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do. But I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there. (Venus Williams) [US tennis champion]
Experience is what we call the accumulation of our mistakes. (Yiddish Proverb)
Entrepreneurship is a state of mind, a can-do attitude, a capacity to focus on a vision and work toward it. (Barry Rogstad)
Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't. (Pete Seeger)
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of opportunities. An optimist makes opportunities of so-called difficulties. (Unknown)
Action springs not from thought but from readiness for responsibility. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
Who you are, what your values are, what you stand for. They are your anchor, your north star. You won't find them in a book. You'll find them in your soul. (Anne M. Mulcahy)
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. (Henry Ford)
Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, as long as ever you can. (John Wesley)
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure. (Edward Eggleston)
If you aspire to become a 'giant' of industry you first must learn to 'grow' from all your past mistakes and failures. (Joseph P. Martino) [(1937~) American Poet, Author]
Either you deal with what is the reality or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you. (Alex Haley)
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant. (Robert Louis Stevenson) [novelist]
What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. (Maxwell Maltz)
It doesn't matter where you are, you are nowhere compared to where you can go. (Bob Proctor)
An investment in knowledge pays the best dividends. (Benjamin Franklin)
Some people miss the message because they are too busy checking the spelling. (Unknown)
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals (Zig Ziglar)
The two things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision. (Robyn Davidson)
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. (Helen Keller)
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. (Helen Keller)
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. (Swami Sivananda Saraswati)
I would rather fail trying than succeed at doing nothing. (Denis Waitley)
Even a snail will eventually reach its destination. (Gail Tsukiyama) [The Street of a Thousand Blossoms ]

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